layoffs are happening about people covering baltimore politics. >> i'm going to miss ron paul missing from the national stage for a lot of reasons. one of them is we're not going to talk about the drug war anymore, probably. it's one of the policies mitt romney has failed to give us any information about. we can look at who is advising him on this. and one of his biggest donors and one would presume kitchen cabinet advisers is a man named mel sembler who founded a string of teen -- hard, you know, tough-love rehabs which were closed down after there were allegations of torture, abuse and rape. he and his wife still are active in the anti-medical marijuana programs and just trying to basically any kind of decriminalization of any drug. that's the kind of policy that we would kind of get. >> that's a good bit of information i did not know. thank you for that. >> now i know because i was one of those 15,000 reporters in tampa. i now know what a gay bar at the republican convention looks like, 2012. yes, actually. i've never seen so many straight men in a gay bar, and they're all dressed